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Imperial family members attend a spring garden party at the Akasaka Palace imperial garden in Tokyo on April 22.
JAPAN
May 23, 2025

Support for female imperial family members keeping status at 64.9%: poll

While many respondents backed the idea, 10.7% opposed it and a total of 24.3% had no opinion or were not sure.
Institutional Shareholder Services backed the reappointment of Chairman Akio Toyoda to Toyota’s board, reversing its position from a year ago.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 23, 2025

ISS reverses stance and backs Toyota chief's reappointment

"There are no particular concerns about the nominee,” Institutional Shareholder Services said of Akio Toyoda in a report Thursday.
Lewis Hamilton waves to fans before the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Imola, Italy, on May 18.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
May 23, 2025

Lewis Hamilton has more movies in mind after working with Brad Pitt

Hamilton is also planning to do documentaries and possibly a television series with his Dawn Apollo production company.
A third-party committee set up by Fuji Television Network said in a statement Thursday that its recognition of sexual violence was based on the World Health Organization's definition because Fuji TV and its parent, Fuji Media Holdings, needed to fulfill their accountability to global shareholders.
JAPAN / Media
May 23, 2025

Fuji TV panel defends conclusion of 'sexual violence' by Nakai

The committee rejected the request from Nakai's lawyer to disclose interview records and other evidence, claiming that it would undermine its independence and neutrality.
Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan's newly appointed agriculture minister, arrives at the ministry building in Tokyo on Wednesday. He replaced Taku Eto, who quit after saying he’s never needed to buy rice, a comment that angered many people.
EDITORIALS
May 23, 2025

Rice price uproar intensifies ruling party's election fears

When the remarks triggered a predictable and understandable backlash, Eto explained that he was trying to make a joke.
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives in Washington on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 23, 2025

Trump re-escalates trade threats, aiming at Apple and European Union

The tech giant has become a frequent Trump target in his push to force companies to bring more manufacturing jobs to the U.S.
A student walks on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Friday.
WORLD / Society
May 24, 2025

Harvard wins temporary block of Trump’s foreign student ban

The attempted ban could make foreign students shy about coming to the U.S. at all, even if the government doesn’t take similar actions against any other universities.
The ASEAN logo is displayed with Kuala Lumpur's skyline in the background on Friday ahead of an ASEAN summit in the city.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
May 24, 2025

U.S. tariff tensions test Southeast Asian leaders at regional summit

ASEAN leaders will express deep concern over U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff blitz when they meet at a summit Monday, according to a draft statement.
Visitors walk along Nakamise-dori as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district in March.
JAPAN
May 24, 2025

Travelers avoid trips to Japan over viral comic book’s quake prediction

Ryo Tatsuki, whom some claim predicted Japan’s 2011 earthquake, gives July 2025 as the date of the impending event in a 1999 graphic novel.
Requiring journalists to have escorts in much of the Pentagon building is the latest in a series of restrictions placed on the press by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.
WORLD / Politics
May 24, 2025

Trump administration puts new limits on reporters at Pentagon

The move is the latest in a series of restrictions placed on the press by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.
People visit the exhibition "Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth?" at the Natural History Museum in London on May 16.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 24, 2025

Doubt cast on claim of 'hints' of life on faraway planet

There is not enough evidence to support such lofty claims some studies say, with one scientist accusing the astronomers of "jumping the gun."
Migrants wait to disembark from the port of Arguineguin, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, in July 2024.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 24, 2025

Boat driver arrests up as EU eyes tighter smuggling laws

NGO's argue that the focus should shift from pursuing boat drivers to prosecuting criminal organizations.
McLaren's Lando Norris drives during qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
May 25, 2025

Norris shrugs off gremlins with record lap for Monaco pole

Driving with impeccable judgement, pace and purpose, the 25-year-old British driver became the first to ever go under 70 seconds around the historic track.
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to deliver the commencement address at the graduation ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy West Point in West Point, New York, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
May 25, 2025

Trump 'on brand' with anti-woke rant at army officer graduation

The U.S. president's speech at the West Point Military Academy veered between attacks on transgender people and DEI policies to slamming his predecessors.
Rescuers transport a covered body in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on Friday.
WORLD
May 25, 2025

Rescuers say nine children of Gaza doctor couple killed in Israeli strike

Israel has recently stepped up its campaign in Gaza drawing international criticism and calls to allow in more supplies after it eased a total aid blockade imposed on March 2.
Family members, friends and Minneapolis residents pay their respects at the memorial site where George Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020, by police officer Derek Chauvin, ahead of the fifth anniversary of Floyd’s death on Friday.
WORLD / Society
May 25, 2025

Did George Floyd protesters miss their moment for change?

Despite widespread revulsion at racism and police brutality, many turned away when BLM activists broadened their message to calling for the defunding of law enforcement.
Japanese license plate samples — the top two are examples of nationwide license plates, while the bottom two are examples of "gotochi" license plates.
JAPAN
May 25, 2025

Japan to scrap monochrome special license plates

The ministry will soon allow only multicolor versions in an effort to ease the burden on license plate makers amid an expected increase in demand.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to punish Harvard by targeting its international students is an unconstitutional power grab aimed at intimidating free institutions and advancing his authoritarian agenda.
COMMENTARY / World
May 25, 2025

Harvard is fighting for much more than foreign students

Trump is trying to break the world’s leading university because he knows that higher education — everywhere — is one of the bulwarks of a free society.
People watch as smoke billows following an Israeli strike in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD
May 26, 2025

Israeli military aims to take over 75% of Gaza within two months

The Israeli military already controls about 40% of Gaza.
McLaren's Lando Norris celebrates on the podium after winning the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
May 26, 2025

Lando Norris lives boyhood dream with victory at Monaco Grand Prix

Norris set up his first victory in the Mediterranean principality by securing pole position on Saturday and then making no mistakes on a sunny Sunday devoid of overtaking.
A house damaged during a Pakistani artillery shelling in Poonch, in India-administered Kashmir, on May 14
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 26, 2025

India and Pakistan battle for global sympathy after border truce

Both sides are sending delegations to global capitals to influence international perception of the conflict, as tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals continue to simmer.
U.S. President Donald Trump says U.S. Steel will be "controlled by the United States, otherwise I wouldn’t make the deal” on what he called a "partnership" with Nippon Steel.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 26, 2025

Trump backing for Nippon Steel deal comes with big questions

The U.S. leader's unexpected announcement stopped short of explicitly endorsing Nippon Steel’s proposed takeover, instead asserting that U.S. Steel would "remain American.”
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk arrive for a "Coalition of the Willing" news conference at St. Mary's Palace in Kyiv on May 10.
WORLD / Politics
May 26, 2025

How can Europe maintain a supply of weapons for Ukraine? Buy American

Such a move would force the U.S. president to pick between his desire to avoid antagonizing his Russian counterpart against his wish to bring in more cash.
Women visit a stand during the 23rd international gold and jewellery exhibition in Kuwait City on May 21.
WORLD
May 26, 2025

Stateless overnight: Kuwait strips tens of thousands of citizenship

The mass revocations have been cast as part of a reformist agenda spearheaded by Kuwaiti emir Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.
At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks of Vietnam's unique modern script, in part a legacy of French colonial rule.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
May 26, 2025

'It's in our blood': How Vietnam adopted the Latin alphabet

The history of romanized Vietnamese links the arrival of the first Christian missionaries, colonization by the French and the rise to power of the Communist Party.
Reindeer herder Ari Maununiemi feeds lichen to his reindeer at his home and farm outside Rovaniemi, Finland, on Feb. 26.
WORLD
May 26, 2025

Growing Arctic military presence worries Finland's reindeer herders

"Military activity has increased massively here since Finland joined NATO," one herder said.
Aryna Sabalenka hits a return against Kamilla Rakhimova during the first round of the French Open in Paris on Sunday.
TENNIS
May 26, 2025

Aryna Sabalenka off to strong start at French Open; Rafael Nadal says goodbye

Women's world No. 1 Sabalenka needed just an hour to sweep aside Russian Kamilla Rakhimova.
The Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant, which was shuttered last week, is seen from a beach in Pingtung, southern Taiwan, on April 29.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 26, 2025

Taiwan to hold referendum on restarting closed nuclear reactor

The Aug. 23 poll will decide whether the Maanshan nuclear power plant, shuttered just last week, should resume operations if there are no safety concerns.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim speaks with the press as he waits to greet leaders before an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Kuala Lumpur on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 26, 2025

ASEAN nations decry Trump tariffs at summit and seek to diversify trade

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim opened talks by saying that he had written to President Donald Trump seeking a U.S.-ASEAN meeting on the topic.
Yu-Hsuan Lin, 27, poses for a photo with a Harvard hat and hoodie in Taipei on May 24.
WORLD / Politics
May 26, 2025

Taiwan students heading to Harvard 'anxious' after U.S. enrolment block

Taiwan's education ministry said it expects 52 Taiwanese students to be affected by the U.S. government's move.

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